Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , he seems to have made a complete balls of it , ’ said Sir Harry . |
| 2 | Superheating occurs if the temperature of a liquid rises above its boiling point . |
| 3 | His wife , played by Greta Scacchi , has a few secrets of her own . |
| 4 | I 'd like to take a few moments of your time … |
| 5 | I would be most grateful if you could spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm sure you can spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 7 | Few of us would be surprised to find an interviewer on our doorstep asking us to give a few moments of our time " to answer one or two questions " on our voting habits , which TV programmes we watch or which washing powder we use . |
| 8 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 9 | After he 'd gone Sarella sat still for a few moments with her head resting on the chair-back . |
| 10 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 11 | Hill and Whitlow taking a few chances in their own half and finally Whitlow 's dispossessed and it comes to Collimore . |
| 12 | The coroner gently pushed the keeper out before him , took , out his purse and clinked a few coins into his hand . |
| 13 | He placed a few coins by his empty coffee cup and waved at the waiter . |
| 14 | Anyone with a few coins in their purse , or gold pieces , was well advised to take a ‘ chair ’ or a ‘ cab ’ home after dark . |
| 15 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 16 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 17 | And he did the same thing at Brackley Town , he guided them to success , their best ever season , he 's gone to Buckingham Town , took a few players with him , so Brackley Town , they 're not too pleased and they 're going to be out to beat Buckingham Town tonight , but I 'm going to sit on the fence and go for Buckingham 3 1 . |
| 18 | He faced the challenge of Dunluce , a 6860-yard , par 73 giant that had already brought quite a few players to their knees , among them title favourite Phil Tataurangi . |
| 19 | Hugh would get up purposefully and drive into Mondano , returning with a large number of bread rolls and a few croissants over which the children quarrelled . |
| 20 | MENTION big-time tennis venues round here and folk let you prattle on about Wimbledon , Roland Garros , Flushing Meadow and Flinders Park and then press a few claims of their own . |
| 21 | A few quotations from his correspondence to friends during the years before its appearance will serve to introduce the main interests and traits in question : " Three things are my relaxations , but infrequent ones : my Schopenhauer , Schumann 's music , and solitary walks " ( from 1866 ) ; " It is only too natural that … concentrating on a particular field of knowledge all day long should somewhat blunt one 's untrammelled receptivity and attack the philosophic sense at its root . |
| 22 | She tells him all and , one assumes from hints and a few quotations in her letters , he does the same to her . |
| 23 | I did a few concerts with him , he was a very good performer . |
| 24 | He came out of the bedclothes and said , ‘ While I 'm laid up like this , why do n't you do a few concerts on your own ? ’ |
| 25 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 26 | Only a few metres through its portals and already the spell was reaching her , soothing her jagged nerves . |
| 27 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 28 | Bernice glanced over her shoulder and was relieved to see that Francis and Elaine were only a few metres behind her . |
| 29 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
| 30 | I have pleasure in enclosing a few copies of our new recruitment leaflet which I hope you feel will enable you to attract a lot of people in your area to become CPRW members . |